Week	Day	Description	Readings	Notes
1	January 14	Intro	Detailed Reconstruction of an Internet-Scale Event
2	January 21	Measurement techniques, methodology, and ethics	Debian SSL Vulnerability ZMap: Fast Internet-Wide Scanning Botnet-based Internet Census 2012*	research prompt
3	January 28	Browser fingerprinting	Panopticlick History sniffing Tracking survey FPDetective
4	February 4	Botnet infiltration and community ethical standards	Botlab Spamalytics Your Botnet is My Botnet ethical behavior in security research The Menlo Report
5	February 11	Deanonymization	Predicting Social Security Numbers from Public Data Robust De-anonymization of Large Sparse Datasets k-Anonymity: A Model for Protecting Privacy	midterm, due before class Feb 25
6	February 18	Online advertising	Privad Microtargeting privacy violations Who Do Online Advertisers Think You Are?
7	February 25	Special session: online advertising	No readings
8	March 4	Censorship	Freenet Tor Cirripede
9	March 11	Online Social Networks	Persona User Interactions in Social Networks Socialbots
10	March 18	Signal Reconstruction	(sp)iPhone TEMPEST Phonotactic Reconstruction
	March 25	Spring Break - no class	No readings
11	April 1	k-Anonymity+	l-Diversity	please review the original k-Anonymity paper from week 5.
12	April 3	More privacy preserving data analysis techniques	m-Invariance Differential Privacy
13	April 15	Bitcoin	Bitcoin Bitter to Better Payment Characterization
14	April 17	NSA scandal	Readings posted on Piazza
15	April 30

* This is not a research paper; this paper is presented primarily to discuss the ethics of the perpetrator as well as alternative methods for conducting similar research ethically.